Whoever is the turd that kills someone over a turd.

This right there is why the rest of the world doesn't think the US is a civilized country. You really managed to get from barbary to decadence without the civilization detour.

There will be a lot more of the drones though, and they will fail often enough that replacements will always be needed. The real money is already in the armaments.

You can wrap all of that in a downloadable shell script if you like. It's way less of a big deal than you make out; our customers never expressed any problems with installing the software.

SF is no different than any other city other than having a climate that makes it easier for the homeless to not die of exposure. Cities are dirty, cramped places. I don't understand why people willingly choose to live in them, but they do. They vote liberal because they lean young, and young people lean liberal.

Their politics have almost zero to do with cities being s**tholes. Republicans manage to turn beautiful places into s**tholes just as quickly. They just ruin things in different ways — Democrats by not mandating psychological treatment for people who are wandering the streets because of severe mental health problems and by allowing them to ignore the rules of society without consequence, Republicans by cutting funding for the mental health services that they need to keep them off the streets and by throwing people into jails where they don't get adequate mental health treatment and end up coming out even more screwed up than they were when they went in.

Both parties absolutely suck, and people who claim otherwise are kidding themselves.

Since communism is, by definition, classless, you cannot both be classist and communist.

Racism is, again by definition, incompatible with abstraction.

My conclusion is that you're pretty shaky on definitions.

You have never checked out "Hunt Down the Freeman", aka "Hunt down the Refund"?

By now, the reviews are mostly trolling, but trust me, it IS the worst game currently available on Steam.

Really? apt update && apt install the_software is too complicated?

Yes, it's US centric. It's the US that poke Russia and China about it, guess why they poke them and not the others.

Don't kill the messenger, I just tell you why the US isn't bothered with any of the other nuclear powers.

Sounds good, let's see it IRL. How much usable energy per unit of battery weight?

Don't know about weight, but you can buy 18650 cells using Na-Ion right now. They have the power capacity and curves of LiFePO4 cells at the moment.

The key part is that we have tons of sodium, unlike lithium, and a lot of it is already in ion form. Earth's lithium supplies are limited, while sodium supplies are basically limitless, and thus, it's stupidly cheap and unlikely to rise due to its abundance.

Sodium batteries are very similar to lithium, since it's in the same group (one row down) so the properties are similar. Hopefully that means enhanced sodium cells are soon as they apply the advancements made to lithium batteries to sodium batteries.

But you can apparently play with them today. A video on a YouTuber playing with them - https://youtu.be/s6zcI1GrkK4

Gnome might not be the best example. At least TWO distros were inspired by the desire to avoid Gnome shell. At least one to avoid SyetemD. Linus had to yell at the SyetemD people to stop them from crapping up the kernel.

The recent debacle with the xz based security hole explains well why Debian likes to think twice about updating package versions.

I've stuck with Debian since ~2003. Sure, Debian has had its organizational and interpersonal dramas, but for the most part, Debian developers care about delivering a stable and useful system without any of the enshittification that comes with being a corporation trying to bring in revenue.

You can create your own apt repo, you know. Back when I ran a company distributing software, we created apt repos for various versions of Debian (stable and oldstable, I believe.)